Award-winning iPhone digicam app Halide was right this moment up to date to model 2.15, which features a new characteristic that enables customers to take images devoid of all picture processing for a extra pure look.
Halide’s new picture processing pipeline is named “Process Zero,” which makes use of “zero AI, no computational photography whatsoever – offering photographers a counter to the increasingly AI-heavy processing and tooling on smartphones,” in response to app developer Lux Optics.
Course of Zero makes use of a quick course of based mostly on a single publicity RAW file. The file itself is a 12 megapixel picture plus a RAW DNG file for extra enhancing.
“Process Zero is fast, capturing at anywhere from 10 — 25× the speed of a ProRAW capture. Much like film, it can feature natural sensor grain, slight color aberrations, and is much less usable in low light. This makes for its natural look, like taking photos on an older classic digital camera,” clarify the builders.
Halide 2.15 nonetheless permits photographers the selection of course of earlier than or throughout taking pictures – customers can select processing at setup, or whereas taking pictures, selecting from ProRAW, normal iPhone photograph processing, lowered picture processing, or Course of Zero.
As well as, the Halide replace features a dial within the app’s new Picture Lab which lets customers re-develop the RAW file with Course of Zero for various publicity ranges.
Lux Optics is keen to emphasize that lots of Apple’s picture processing options nonetheless profit customers, however with Course of Zero they’ll see precisely what photos seem like when it is utterly taken away.
Halide 2.15 is offered right this moment from the App Retailer with a restricted 1-week low cost on all new Halide memberships for $11.99 per yr (standard value is $19.99). There’s additionally a 1-week free trial with a membership, or customers can go for a lifetime buy of $59.99.